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Suspected sockpuppets



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Emmanuel Obiajulu and the four sockpuppets have made the exact same style of edits, adding unnecessary images to articles while using the hashtags"#WPWP" and "#WPWPARK". Here are some examples:

Mazda Ibuki
 * Emmanuel Obiajulu's edit (20 July 2021)
 * Siwema Nikini's edit (27 July 2021)

Interstate 105 (California)
 * Siwema Nikini's edit (24 July 2021)
 * Mary calist mlay's edit (25 July 2021)

U.S. Route 163
 * Siwema Nikini's edit (24 July 2021)
 * Mary calist mlay's edit (25 July 2021)

International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament
 * Siwema Nikini's edit (24 July 2021)
 * Dnshitobu's edit (25 July 2021)

Southwest Airlines
 * Siwema Nikini's edit (24 July 2021)
 * Godson18's edit (28 July 2021)

Currently, two of the sockpuppets are temporarily blocked, but further investigation needs to be made. - Areaseven (talk) 09:04, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Good grief. More headaches for other editors. - Areaseven (talk) 10:01, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * , are you aware of the WPWP image contest going on? The Meta page is at meta:Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021. This ANI thread covers some issues with contest participants, who often edit at high rates of speed using the hashtags as edit summaries, and don't otherwise participate in the encyclopedia. It's highly likely that these are not sockpuppets, but independent contest participants whose editing behavior happens to be unfortunately identically frustrating as they're all trying to win by smashing photos into articles at high speed. And yes, reinsertion of the same removed image is extremely common - it was an issue with last year's contest too. We don't know exactly why but it's speculated that they're working from a common list of suggestions. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 09:35, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Whew, this is the third WPWP SPI filing this week, and I'm starting to think that this contest might not have been the best idea considering that if this wasn't officially encouraged, it probably could be considered abusive meatpuppetry with the goal of edit warring disruptive edits back in. per PMC; unless there is evidence outside of the "normal" WPWP activity that ties two or more users to each other, there's nothing I can do here. --Blablubbs (talk) 14:02, 30 July 2021 (UTC)